Improvement in hand-mirrors



C. E. PAGE. Hand-Mirror.

No. 218,396. Patented Aug 12, 1879.

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N- FETERS. FHDTKLUTNDGRAPHEH. WASHINGTON. D C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES E. PAGE, OF BIDDEFORD, MAINE.

IMPROVEMENT IN HAND-MIRRORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 21 8,396, dated August12, 1879; application filed May 21, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. PAGE, of Biddeford, State of Maine, haveinvented an Improvement in Hand-Mirrors, of which the following is aspecification.

The object of my invention is to furnish an inexpensive, efficient, anddurable means and method of securing the handle to the body of smallmirrors known as hand-mirrors; and the invention consists in a plate ordisk of leather-board or other suitable material inserted between thereflecting-plate and the back, in or through which slots are formed,having a curved or angular outline, and in which thecorrespondingly-formed ends of the handle are inserted and interlockedin order to secure such handle in place; also, in the combination of theparts.

Figure 1 is a detached plan view of such disk, showing the slots formedtherein. Fig. 2 is a detached plan view of the handle as formed to beinterlocked in the slots of the disk. Fig. 3 is a plan view showing theinclosing-rim of the mirror, with the said disk in position therein, andalso showing the handle inserted through such rim and interlocked in thedisk. Fig. 4 is a section exaggerated in thickness, and takentransversely to the plane of the mirror on line A B, Fig. 5, and showingall the parts of the completed mirror. Fig. 5 is a plan view of themirror complete.

In these views, a is the disk, through which are punched the slots be,the slot 0 terminatin g at its inner end in an angle to itsenteringline.

0 is the handle, formed of a piece of wire, the part at of whichconforms to and enters the slot 1), while the end 0 is bent to conformto and enter slot 0.

f is the inclosing-rim, which is formed with the usual narrow flange toreceive the reflecting-plate g, and in its circumferential line areprovided two holes for the insertion of the two ends of handle 0.

The reflecting-plate g is protected by a plate, h, which may be of paperor any suitable material and is inserted between the disk 00 and plateg.

The back i is secured in position by the turned-down edge of rim f, and,together with plates 9 and h, serves to hold the'handle G in properposition relatively to the plan ct the mirror, while the interlocking ofthe handle in the disk serves to hold the latter in proper radialrelation to the mirror.

Diskamay be of other material than leatherboard without departing fromthe spirit of my invention, and the slots therein maybe varied from theconfiguration shown, and yet'serve the intended purpose.

I claim as my invention 1. In a hand-mirror, the disk at, having theslots b c therein, the plate 1', and the handle (J, formed to correspondwith and interlocked in said slots, substantially as specified.

2. In a hand-mirror, the disk a, having the slots 12 c therein, theperforated inclosing-rim f, and the handle G, inserted through such rimand interlocked in the slots in disk at, all substantially as specified.

CHARLES E. PAGE.

Witnesses:

NATHL. B. WALKER, ROYAL E. GOULD.

